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Carver's "Boxes": Something is Not Right
Have you ever had that eerie feeling in the back of your mind that
something just is not right? It is as if there is some unknown reason that a
situation has a different meaning then what is obvious. This feeling is the
disguised backbone of Raymond Carver's story, "Boxes". In th ....
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.... only by a safety belt and the son thought about if the man fell. The
son is still on the phone with his mother: "I didn't have any idea what I was
going to say next. I had to say something. But I was filled with unworthy
feelings, thoughts no son should admit to. 'You're my mother,' I said finally.
'What can I do to help?'" (p. 413). What were these thoughts? Why doesn't the
narrator tell us? The son cannot help being affected by these powerful words of
his mother. This gap in the story is important because the son is thinking
ab ....
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